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What is the story behind the Catalonia thing? Is it that the Catalonians want to set themselves up as a Singapore-like city-state and the Spanish won’t let them? Or is there some other reason driving their desire for independence? I’ve heard that most Catalonians are more “left” (on economic policies) than the Spanish themselves, which makes the “Singapore II” desire less likely to me.
There is always talk among “nomad capitalist” expat types about who’s going to be the “next Singapore”.
I have a question related to Covid19 vaccination in Russia.
Notwithstanding all the Western propaganda, the Sputnik V vaccine seems very safe and quite effective (and possibly the most effective vaccine against variants on the market right now).
Russia could be boasting of this success and publicizing vaccination rates much higher than the EU which is lagging due to the inept vaccine procurement strategy of the European Commission. Yet I can’t find on Google any recent data on vaccination rates in Russia (just old Western media articles saying that Russian vaccination statistics are fake).
The fact that Russia can export Sputnik V is a real PR success. But the vaccination of the Russian population would be even better.
Macron says he wants to reserve millions of vaccines for Africa even though he cannot get vaccines for most of the French population. I expected better from Putin.
“alien” is now prohibited in U,S, government language. It has been replaced by “non-citizen.” But the prefix “non” is itself pejorative. It is better, Joe snd Nancy, if you are listening, to borrow the parlance of student future doctors, and use “pre-citizen.” In any case, it is salutary to create a “void” (in Cuomo parlance) where “alien” used to be, thus reserving that word for any encounters that the new Mars rover might have.
Speaking of which, the rover, named “perseverance,” is in danger of falling into that Law of the Universe that I call “the irony trap.” At the battle of Jutland, the first ship to be defeated was named “Indefatigable.” This is how the world works.
Harry and Meghan have moved to America.
No doubt in order to receive further training in dealing with blacks, before being shipped off to some newly formed kingdom in the interior of Africa. I am informed that the Queen’s ultimate goal is to fissure the Commonwealth and peal off the black countries under a new octoroon crown that will be friendly to Glencore.
Spain is one of the strongest nation-states in the EU; the EU wants weak nation-states it can push around. Encouraging Catalonian (and Basque) nationalism is a way to weaken the Spanish state, and so increase the authority of the New USSR in Brussels. This is why you mainly see members of the Oligarchical-Left supporting such proposals.
The US Dissident Right is again beset with infighting.
Proof that we need a Central Committee and Politburo to put a kibosh on personality cults.
More Orwellian and bigoted anti-Russian BS:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-20/Sanctioned-Russia-to-compete-under-ROC-acronym-in-both-Olympics-Y1P6s7p03u/index.html
Some just don’t give up. This guy claims to have proof that the Russian government has kompromat on Trump:
https://twitter.com/craigunger
His “research assistant”:
https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211
Some debatable analysis:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-chart-new-course-russia-178416
This data simply does not exist. There is data (incomplete and outdated) on vaccination in vaccination centers starting from December 5. But in addition, vaccination is carried out by different departments (the Ministry of Defense, Russian railways, etc.) and this data is simply unknown.
Now free vaccination is available to the majority of the population, and where there are failures, they are caused by logistics or incorrect distribution of the vaccine. The export of the vaccine does not affect this. Moreover, it seems that they export the Sputnik vaccine produced in other countries (South Korea, India, etc.).
How many books about this have been published? Feels like they just keep coming out.
You can find a lot of up to date news in local media. If you search for “thousands vaccinated” on Yandex and look in the news section you’ll find it. It looks like 2-3% of the population have been vaccinated. But the vaccination has been really slow up until recently. It seems that in most regions the majority have been vaccinated in the last two weeks.
Here is this information (3 342 812 person is vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine)
https://gogov.ru/articles/covid-v-stats
But this information is outdated for several days, and does not include those who were vaccinated not in vaccination centers but under other programs. Probably the real number of vaccinated in Russia is about 4 million.
In Moscow, everyone is vaccinated without restrictions for 2.5 months, but out of 10 million adults in Moscow, about 800,000 are vaccinated. Oddly enough the export of the vaccine contributes to vaccination in Russia as it helps to break down psychological barriers
News that just came out about production:
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/10748813
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/10748877
EU doesn’t like Catalonian separatism either. But they could handle it so they don’t make much noise about it. They are definitely not encouraging it though.
My trip to the Crimea in January. I can advise everyone to go to the Crimea in winter
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White burglars, naturally.
It seems that the only people in Europe outside of Catalonia encouraging Catalonian separatism is certain Scottish nationalists.
As you might expect, most of the large, national (as opposed to regional) political parties in Spain are against Scottish nationalism. They’re afraid of setting a dangerous precedent.
There’s talk of Spain, France (wary of encouraging Corsican nationalism), and a few other countries vetoing Scotland’s entry in to the EU, if Scotland were to become independent.
Maybe Lyndon Larouche was right about the Queen.
https://twitter.com/lisakirbie/status/1362215640195596293
https://twitter.com/villecallio/status/1362382241914093569
If one mask isn’t good enough why aren’t the masks just thicker?
That was my first thought, too.
There are better (and more expensive) masks. I guess it’s an attempt to get the benefits of those from the cheap shitty masks.
You got better weather. Bridge was closed recently due to snow storms.
All that snow should help with the water situation.
This is about surgical masks, who only have 20 % – 80 % filtration rate depending on particle size. Ordinary cloth masks have even lower filtration rate. Respirator masks have between 95 % and 99% filtration rate. Look for either N95 or FFP 2 / FFP 3 masks.
Chinese masks KN95 have issues, one must personally check data for the model and the certificate, because there are some chinese “respirators” with only 30 % filtration rate. There is a US health authority page for chinese masks and its testing of various models.
One good tip for masks is to salt your masks. According to 3 recent studies, salting masks increases filtration rate and creates a self-disinfecting mask.
Obviously it can make a difference but I just think it’s funny that people are talking about “doublemasking”.
https://twitter.com/julie_gonzalo/status/1362930975974559745
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Great shots!
Also, what kind of birds are those?
https://imgur.com/pAb8gVW
Don’t bother getting excited, Catalan “nationalists, like their Scottish counterparts, are deviant bien-pensant traitors whose hatred of their own region is only exceeded by their hatred of the rest of Spain.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/25/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-why-barcelona-chose-migrants-over-visitors
https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN19711U?espv=1
Also, seeing this through anti-EU perspective isn’t very useful since the separatists forcefully wish for Catalonia to (illegally) remain an EU state after separation.
Their feelings aren’t reciprocated:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/catalan-separatists-counted-on-support-from-the-eu-but-they-got-the-cold-shoulder/2017/11/01/62df9380-be6b-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html
https://zoo.kiev.ua/en/animals/birds/the-great-white-pelican-/
Pelecanus onocrotalus
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Surprisingly, Germany was the first to come up with a more sensible solution.
Perhaps here is part of the explanation, they have shortages of high-grade masks but don’t wish to emphasise it too much:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/26/960893423/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public
Yanks should be grateful that their NPCs have gone down the road of mask fetishism. The official narrative from their counterparts in most of Europe is that the vaccines won’t change anything and that lockdowns and ridiculous criminally enforced social distancing will continue into 2022.
In the UK, it might be possible,in six weeks time, to……. sit on a park bench without committing a criminal offense. This is with most over 60s vaxxed.
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1363048061048664065
Reads like a parody.
These videos on the Belarusian protests have been complete jokes for many months. Usually it’s like twenty people just walking and waving the red and white flag. Really gives the impression it’s the same people filming the same video over and over again.
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1358357316358258692
The funniest ones are when they meet out in a forest. Great protest.
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1352917776948719617
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For the first two days, everything was covered in snow. But mountain forests and waterfalls under the snow are even more interesting
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rosy pelican – this is how they beg for fish
Looks like US isn’t even trying to stop Nord Stream 2 now. As I understand it they didn’t really implement new sanctions at all. They only reaffirmed sanctions that were already in place.
Why do East Asians bow (and many South or SE Asians), but it is not characteristic of Europeans?
It’s really funny if you think about it from an anti-masker perspective. First Fauci says that masks do nothing. A couple of months later he says everybody needs to wear a mask. Half a year later he says it’s just common sense to wear two masks.
Do you mean a composite bow?
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This bow was widely used in Eastern Europe as a weapon of the noble class. In Western Europe, knights were not mounted archers, and it made no sense to arm simple infantry with such expensive weapons – usual longbows were enough for them
Rather, I mean to bend the back in a gesture of respect and deference.
https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1360551545394196483?s=20
NS 2 is nearly completed (94%+).
The German leftist newspaper Junge Welt reported that the German top atlanticist Norbert Röttgen changed his tune and is no longer demanding a termination of the project.
Looks like he also good new orders.
Cryptos, in 2021 have gone beserk. Have been trading the things in an ultra conservative manner and I’m getting stupid roi.
I read your post on the other thread here is part of my reply:
Yes the numbers don’t include military, trial stage and medical personnel. The numbers vaccinated 10 days before were about 1.9 million Russians FULLY vaccinated ( 2 doses – so 3.8 million vaccinations). That’s very good, and of course not including the very sizable amounts given to those groups I mentioned. America and some other countries have either higher fully vaccinated by number or by proportion – but these numbers from Russia are very good.
Many regions in Russia have required antibody tests before allowing people to be vaccinated – that’s why it’s irrelevant to look at the vaccines done and compare it to other countries. I think it’s 12-15% of the population have immunity or antibodies or whatever ( safe to say I don’t work in this field!), and in addition those who have already had the virus are not allowed to have the vaccine for several months. Antibody reasons are probably why Putin has not had the vaccine.
Then there is the issue of vaccines produced, versus those produced vaccines being checked, delivered and passing all the requirements to be used. It looks like 60% of vaccines produced have been available to use when the numbers produced were 3 million, 5 million and 7 million.
Also important is to forget the Soros funded pathetic BS – we have longer January holidays then most other countries – the first 3 weeks are very quiet and the government used that time to make sure production was increased, more available after the third week in January – a further reasons direct comparisons with other countries are not relevant – except to say that Russian vaccination program is doing great.
My place Tatarstan and other great ( wealthy) regions like Tyumen have had lower vaccines delivered by proportion compared to some poorer regions like Kurgan
Here are some of my guesses, on Asians bowing but primarily not Europeans:
It shows the WEIRDnesss of Euros. Some special tendency to egalitarianism, or else it is a purely cultural reflection of Christianity. (that bowing deeply would be worshiping a false god)
Or: it has something to do with wet-rice agriculture. Maybe, the greater population it can support, led to more hierarchy. Or maybe, Asians are more domesticated and more willing to take their eyes off each other.
PLA acknowledges 4 fatal casualties in Ladakh from the June 15 clash. Three soldiers and the battalion commander died. The regimental commander was seriously injured. No word on the number of any other non-fatal casualties.
The number of fatal casualties is in line with a report on June 25 from the Economic Times in India.
The question then is why are Indian fatal casualties higher? Indian Army acknowledged a total of 20 fatal casualties in two separate staggered statements. At first, the Indian Army announced 3 deaths and then a short while later in another statement announced an additional 17 soldiers had died due to “sub-zero temperatures”.
Could the 17 soldiers have died due to lack of helicopters for casualty evacuation? The ITBP, a paramilitary force that patrols the border with the Indian Army, complained in the media a few days before the clash about the inability to acquire any helicopters.
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/red-tape-comes-way-itbp-getting-choppers
Craig Unger has written two such books. His most recent just came out. Unger’s “evidence” are documents that are presented as corrupt deals with former Soviets, suggesting that the Russian government has kompromat out on Trump. On par with trying to accuse someone of murder on the sole basis of corrupt biz deals. Never mind the numerous examples indicating that Trump hasn’t been a toad of the Russian government.
I’ve heard that the Chinese sometimes use clubs with nails driven into them because of the high altitude. I don’t know if that would be worse or better than rifles, with regards to fatalities. I’d guess more head injuries. Probably less amendable to improved medical techniques on the battlefield.
It seems be a hierarchy/formality thing:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120545603
It is still expected for the UK PMs:
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Though for women, curtseys look more elegant when they are wearing a full dress:
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Pro-NATO militarist propaganda:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-poland-just-lost-russia-massive-wargame-and-what-it-means-178578
Not going to happen, if Scotland follows the proper legal procedures to be recognized as an independent state no One is going to veto their entry in the European Union.
There’s been hundreds of anti-Russian books published the last few years. Russiagate often being the main selling point. They’re basically all written by people paid by US government in some way. Usually people employed in some think tank.
There’s typically not much overall consistency between the various theories presented in all these books. But the authors rarely care about that. They won’t call each other out on such issues. In fact, it’s often the opposite, the authors will often give warm reviews to other anti-Russian books even for books that present contradictory theories to the author’s. That just kind of shows you that there is little interest in presenting facts. The only thing that matters is Russia bad!
Twitter brings out the TWIT in s0me. The MSNBC house Republican Michael Steele has tweeted support for Unger’s most recent book. Let’s see how it’s received by CNN, WaPo, NYT, CNN, NPR et al.
That’s interesting about early colonial America.
I recall reading something about a dress code among the Puritans (or I believe it was the Puritans.) That even though they sort of frowned on a lot of things, women of high class were allowed, I believe, to wear gold jewelry, even if they had fallen on bad times, or lost their fortune. But lower class women were not allowed to wear such things, at all and would be punished for it.
And I believe some theorize that Quakers popularized the handshake.
But, it still kind of begs the question, why is there more hierarchy in the East? Or, why has it persisted longer?
BTW, it is also notable how Easterners bow very deeply sometimes for trivial things, like an apology or for a small error, and to people who aren’t nobles.
I guess in Japan, in was common for Samurai to kill peasants who offended them into what we would consider recent times – one killed some Englishman who didn’t dismount or move his horse aside. And I guess it would make sense that Japanese culture would have carried over to Korea. But I wonder about China?
All of the great burglar/heist films from the past (and there were plenty of them) starred white/European movie stars. Must have been an early manifestation of ANTIFA propaganda tactics: 🙂
https://youtu.be/K6JVaUHS0Ow
Discarding Cary Grant’s magnificent Mediterranean sun tan, he and Grace Kelly are as white as rice pudding: Alfred Hitchcock’s very entertaining “To Catch a Thief”.
More “Whitey’s” getting into the act:
https://youtu.be/ar0xLps7WSY
🙂
If Fauci is a scientist, I am the Pope. LOL.
Sure, nobody really knows for sure (except Kremlin insiders), but would it really be that hard to believe that such kompromat exists? Trump was never known to be a choir boy in the first place, and his extra curricular sexual proclivities were especially well known before he was president. Nah, impossible! 🙂
But think, what if the Russians had been smart enough to snap a few incriminating photos, just think how handy they’d come in for any future negotiating purposes. But then again, it’s just not possible, outside the parameters of what the FSB does….
China releases video of border clash with India
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215914.shtml
As predicted, with Trump gone Nordstream2 goes through. Yet US leftist media claimed that Trump was Putin’s puppet.
I think I could design a country that progressives would really love.
For example, part of the national costume would be a sash, like the Boy Scouts wear, where they could sew on different ribbons and badges in order to signal. And on the sash, there would be some sort of RFID or QR code that would link to a personal website, maintained at state expense, with space for additional virtue signals.
And, of course, they would be forced to miscegenate with blacks, sort of like in Paraguay or Haiti. Free testing for STDs, while paternity tests would be banned.
The return of armor and shields for melee combat. Pikes next?
It is called cold winter.
Could have something to do with the failure of Germany’s renewable power generation this winter (it supplied just between 0 and 3 % of electricity in this January for Berlin-Brandenburg region) and thus the record amounts of russian gas being bought by the EU.
https://techstartups.com/2021/02/11/germanys-green-energy-failure-germany-turns-back-coal-natural-gas-millions-solar-panels-blanketed-snow-ice/
There are rumors the chinese used microwave weapons there.
https://torontosun.com/news/world/china-uses-microwave-weapons-to-topple-indian-troops-in-border-dispute-professor
For the simple reason that Russia does not have good blackmail material on Trump. He may be dumb, but not that dumb.
Alzheimer Joe is protected in a different way: he can’t get it up even if he wanted to.
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That is quite interesting how the video doesn’t seem to mention India directly. I wonder if that is the typical form of official statements about border clashes.
This is not limited to Germany.
Natural gas seemed to have saved Texas from the worst-case scenario.
https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1363142907507662853
As the article noted, it’s an effort at de-escalation to not name the enemy.
Right, but I’m wondering if it prescriptive or postscriptive. I.e. have they ever named India after a border clash, in recent times (like Deng era)? Would they name Japan or the Philippines? Or just the area?
One thing that I find fascinating about China is how, in movies they don’t seem to allow any state-level baddies, except for WW2-era Japan, or maybe some colonial stuff.
Perhaps, tied into this, I used to also be fascinated how later communist regimes (Eastern Europe, China) seem to promote international conferences in their news media, beyond any reasonable public interest. Imagine lengthy tables put end to end and many potted plants, with delegates from many worthless countries invited to give lengthy speeches about worthless topics, and it being given a lot of time.
Maybe they did, in an indirect sort of way. It was odd, that contrary to all American foreign policy, up until Trump’s arrival, was hostile towards Russia, but all of a sudden Trump had exhibited a fawning attitude towards it, like a forlorn child. Just having an inkling of suspicion of such kompromat was enough to keep Trump a big fan of Russia and old boy Putler too.
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You must be right though, even Deep State never believed any of the “PeeGate” BS.
Help a sister out. Can someone explain to me what it is that’s going on between Andrew Anglin’s ears?
He has determined that, since Kim Kardashian filed for a divorce from Kanye West, she must think he’s “not good enough” for her because “female hypergamy.” She did when she married him, of course, and had four children with him, but now that she is seven years older and has four kids, she apparently thinks she can do better, even though he is a fabulously wealthy superstar.
Given that this is absurd, one might think that something else might be going on, like, I don’t know, he’s not nice to her anymore. Is there any scenario that wouldn’t confirm Anglin’s bias about “female hypergamy”? Or is it just an article of faith to which every thing that happens in the real world, however unlikely under this theory, must be reconciled?
Of course, I don’t really care about Kim Kardashian for all sorts of reasons. I would just like some insight into Andrew Anglin’s reasoning processes.
https://dailystormer.su/kim-divorcing-kanye-billionaire-best-selling-musician-not-good-enough-for-40-year-old-porn-slut/
The Grim Reaper always seems to win (in this life anyway). 🙁
I guess it’s probably specific to the recent outbreak. Since the Global Times is controlled CCP and would presumably be knowledgeable about their policy.
Though, I wonder if they would act similarly if there were a few fatalities exchanged with Japan, as it has no nukes.
Indians have the media advantage and are able to get its side out. But you can assume in the boundary area whatever China does, India also does.
“When Qi Fabao, a regimental commander, brought a few soldiers to negotiate with the Indian troops in June, he was “violently attacked with steel pipes, clubs and stones”, state television CCTV said.”
If energy shields ever come along that prevent ballistics, like in the movie Dune, then I presume Chinese and Indians will have the advantage on us. Probably having developed vibrational swords, in the meantime.
Kim Kardashian’s Ex-Boyfriends And Husbands Before Kanye West
Kim Kardashian and Damon Thomas. …
Kim Kardashian and Ray J. …
Kim Kardashian and Nick Lachey. …
Kim Kardashian and Nick Cannon. …
Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush. …
Kim Kardashian and Miles Austin. …
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.
https://youtu.be/1JHH6iwgIek?t=7
It wasn’t as if the Russians had the Germans tightly grasped by the throat.
Trump ran on a maverick foreign policy that included seeking better relations with Russia. He consulted with Kissinger who has suggested such for Machiavellian reasons. As prez however, Trump drifted away from that. Hence, no reason to believe the Russian government has damaging kompromat on Trump.
Kanye’s old flames:
Alexis Phifer (engaged)
Sessiliee Lopez
Amber Rose
Selida Ebanks
Melody Thornton
Chanel Iman
Virginia Maury
Now that we know way more than we ever wanted to about the romantic histories of these people, I ask again:
Why does Andrew Anglin believe that Kim filed for divorce from Kanye at age 40 because she has all of a sudden decided he’s not good enough for her after marrying him and bearing him four children over seven years?
I’ll go ahead and offer my own conjecture:
Men like Andrew Anglin are psychopaths who do not fall in love like ordinary people do. Therefore, the only relevant question to him and his psychopathic fan boys concerning women is…”Is she good enough for me?”
Because he doesn’t realize that he has a screw loose, he projects his own cynicism about relationships onto normal people, a subset of humanity that may or may not include Kim Kardashian.
Pre-citizen is still too negative for Nancy Pelosi. I’ve seen video where she uses the term “undocumented citizens”.
It’s because it’s all bullshit. Tuberculosis eat your heart out.
Everyone wants to be a gay Japanese cartoon character apparently.
I am reminded of the 239th Rule of Acquisition: “Never be afraid to mislabel a product.”
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I guess the level of hysteria was the same after 9/11. I was astonished how fast Americans found it acceptable for a big black guy name Jamal working for the TSA to finger bang your toddler in the name of counter-terrorism.
Probably gonna linger for the same period (2001 to 2008 were the height of this hysteria, so we’re looking at 5 more years at a minimum of this masking illiteracy).
I just wish plebs would focus their attention towards mosquitoes and how fast they spread disease and viruses. Maybe we can reintroduce DDT, a chemical that worked beautifully but was banned by blubbering vaginas (the ancestors of mask-retards today). If America didn’t rain a jizz-shower of DDT like a special type of moron we’d still have this wonderful product in the West instead of illegal importation or half-cocked synthesis.
Because you know… that’s what governments do. Stand in a man’s way.
He’s flat wrong about Bezos to begin with. Bezos got the user-friendliest divorce in the history of the universe. So probably no need to read past that.
Lol, the old heist movies were great. I’m sure those two are nowadays raiding Minneapolis suburbs, jacking cars, buying sneakers, weed and rims. In favor of your point, kind of, the one burglar I have caught was a pale white (EE of some sort).
There’s a short Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat founder) interview on The Guardian. Interviewed by Luke Harding. He says he’s talking to production companies about creating a tv-series. LOL!
https://tass.ru/ekonomika/10755301
There was some news about this in 2019. Still early project stage without much information. Will be interesting if it’s not cancelled.
I’ve been a city boy all of my life, big cities too, and have had few if any problems dealing with “people of color”. My skin tone is similar to Cary Grant’s, and I tan up easily, perhaps they think that I’m one of their own (Mexicans at least). I’ve had the pleasure of working with some pretty high IQ blacks too, no problem…all of this race stuff is nonsense, on both sides of the equation. “All lives matter” is my motto.
I mean, its ultimately the same reason why Bond movies tended not to name Russia per se as the enemy, but rather independent criminal organizations, due to various political pressures that may be seeking to negotiate with the state in question.
A major domestic consideration of the CCP is to reign in “extremists patriots” who want to push endlessly for war, which make up a meaningful percentage of the population. The CCP may not be a democracy, but they’re still concerned with the opinions of the population, especially for those who are avowed and actively patriotic, but are a more than slightly nuts.
This has led to a lot of mocking jokes of the CCP wanting people to be “not too much patriotic, not too little patriotic” but it should be understandable that the CCP doesn’t want people to go around beating up “hostile foreigners” and foreign businesses.
Probably less so with Japan. Part of this is the understanding that ultimately, the Chinese and the Japanese “understand” each other, insofar as there’s expected levels of escalation for the tit and tat, even if the escalation has no hard limit.
On the other hand, India is more seen as a murky black box that’s too alien to understand(and few Chinese policymakers particularly concern themselves to do so), so there’s more incentive to deescalate within reason, since its not seen as being predictable what level of escalation can rise from it.
China tends to be vocal when it wants to make a lot of noise but not yet engage in hostilities, but much more subdued right before the Rubicon moments. Chinese intervention in the Korean War, for example, was also preceded by subtle rather than explicit warnings.
Arguably the bigger question is why Anglin is still living rent free in your head.
(I browsed the Daily Stormer more or less regularly a few years ago for the edgy racial humor. But it’s long sunk into humorless Christian fundamentalism, “here is how Trump can still win”, Qanon idiocy, and some tired, at this point quite formulaic, denunciations of how the Jews are behind it all).
I wonder if she confused him for you. After all, you both share an initial and weev is in the Ukraine, which is part of Russia.
“the Ukraine” a part of Russia? Is this what they’re still printing in the Beijing Daily? 🙂
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/BeijingDaily.jpg/250px-BeijingDaily.jpg
Your predictability is part of your charm.
Just trying to help you catch-up with your current events circa 1991! 🙂
Chinese Man critiques BBC disinformation campaign. Classic British Strategy, using an Indian to spread lies about Chinese Culture.
https://youtu.be/53me-ICi_f8
I think a few open threads ago there was a rundown on the financing of the, er… operation and the author, Anatoly, mentioned that he’s well off now and gets paid by Roy Unz as well, so if you don’t feel like wasting money that you can’t spare, you should stop the Patreon contribution.
Well, that was what I got out of it. I actually do have money to spare just from my job’s salary and leading a boring these days, though I admit I should probably get into investing, but my lack of experience in it and lack of time is a severe handicap. Plus I’m not based in the US anymore and getting an international brokerage account in my current country with access to all the fun stocks is a real pain. Any helpful information on how I can read up on investing for someone who doesn’t know much? I would only put up money I’m not afraid to lose. Maybe 10K or something even smaller.
The real question was that the Patreon said that if I’m a contributor, I get a free, personally signed book about the Dark Lord of the Kremlin, and if I stop contributing, would my name still be on the free book list? I was thinking of transferring my monthly contribution to the Gray Mirror Substack (apparently to another rich person, but one who has a paywall), but don’t want to lose dibs on the book.
Then again, if the Great Bifurcation post comes out before the end of March, I will probably continue the Patreon thing, even though the host might be richer than me by now, and will probably still pay for the Gray Mirror.
I see your point. Uncle Roger can’t seem to accept any new innovative cooking techniques, kind of like Daniel Chieh’s inability to accept the Ukraine not being a “part of Russia“. 🙂
Maybe a good sprinkiling of MSG* over Ukraine could help Daniel be more accepting of Ukraine (no the necessary)? Hilarious stuff! 🙂
*”it makes everything better”
Anatoly, this is related to a theme you have talked about, the pernicious effects of the west’s rot infiltrating Russian youth
The daily beast is one of the most russophobic outfits, and the prevelance of:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-tiktok-generation-is-putins-achilles-heel
“Some of them identified as feminists, vegan activists, dancers, musicians, and aspiring lawyers. They seemed to march to the beat of a different drum, sharing a set of universal values that differed from that of their parents and grandparents. It was like they were visitors from another planet.”
Is up for debate. But it’s very worrying indeed.
In case you do not have three hours to invest and are curious, I have watched the three free episodes of Adam Curtis’ new TV show Can’t Get You Out of My Head.
It is repetitive and if you are familiar with Curtis’ schtick, it is familiar.
One new to me thing is he showed the display at Soyuz 1 cosmonaut Vladimir Komorov’s open casket state funeral and played a recording of CIA transmitted Komorov’s last words (screams). Not safe for lunch. A google image search for Komorov fetches the image that Curtis displayed. It resembles a molybdomancy product. Google image search for molybdomancy is more fun!
Compared to Basques, Catalan separatists seem fake and gay.
https://www.expatica.com/es/uncategorized/spain-politics-regions-catalonia-basques-10872/
Navalny did not unite Russia’s opposition. Otherwise you would see something much more massive going on. He caused infighting too. His antics in the court were not seen as helpful by his allies.
Some liberals even started criticising the West, sensing that the mood is not supportive of him.
New drone footage from the Orion drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejVLUOipR0w
It’s better than anything I’ve seen before from Russia. Airstrikes previously shown has typically been low quality video with bad stabilization.
It’s not as good as the L3Harris Wescam system that’s used by many Western defense manufacturers and on the Turkish drones. It uses some kind of postprocessing which gives a very clear image. For comparison here is footage using a Wescam camera for surveillance during a protest in United States in November 2020.
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1363713241675923456
Here is also some footage from ZALA Aero drones. It’s a company owned by Kalashnikov that produces surveillance drones and loitering ammunition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF7diHJamlc
You are a complete, total and utter fucking idiot, that is now abundantly clear.
One of the great pities of life is that the price of idiocy this enormous is not invariably immense personal suffering.
I know it’s harsh – and contradictory to the spirit of the forum – but it simply has to be said.
Minnesota nice is a cultural stereotype applied to the behavior of people from Minnesota implying residents are unusually courteous, reserved, mild-mannered. The phrase also implies polite friendliness, an aversion to open confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a direct fuss or stand out, apparent emotional restraint, and self-deprecation.
Apparently the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being boycotted in Germany and France in favour of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines. So much so that hundreds of thousands of vials of it remain unused in both countries and the government in both countries is having to reinforce that people will not get a choice of vaccine.
What is all this about? Petty nationalism and anti-English/anti-Brexit sentiment or more to it?
It also has the more conventional mechanism compared to the other vaccines, so you would think natural scepticism would be about the others
Look, I was writing about my own personal experiences. Even though that I think that the ability of the different races to get along is possible, this doesn’t mean that I support all of the ill thought out mechanisms that the left has in store to accomplish this process. I’m a firm supporter of more stringent border controls, and am against Biden opening up the floodgates again. I thought that the BLM/Floyd marches were a travesty and highlighted the left’s latest hypocrisy in only trying to punish the latest breach of security at the capital. The new sensitivity training that will resume within corporate America is another useless folly of the left. School curriculums, Oi! And on and on…When the left finally realizes that it will take a change of men’s’ hearts to better race relations, and not force-feed the masses with their sterile propaganda, real change will become possible. What’s clouding your heart with hate and darkness Quicksilver?
My interpretation is that Germany and France have a big anti-vax problem, so the media and government are trying to co-opt the anti-vax argument and portray it as a psuedo-nationalist/anti-Brexit one than a scientific one.
They’re trying to make it “Europe vs Perfidious Albion” rather than “Europe vs vaccines/big pharma”.
Have to agree: that’s my experience. I’ve seen smart and dumb, hard-working and lazy people of every color. Did not notice any correlations. Freebies make people disgusting, lazy and racist. Freebies spoil people of all colors.
That’s Ukrainian genes (possibly Turkish admixture). After a week in Peru highlands (Cusco and its environs, Machupicchu) I became almost the same color as locals.
Your daily dose of HBD: (from The Brendan Voyage, an attempt to recreate St. Brendan’s fabled voyage by crossing the Atlantic in a leather boat)
Incidentally, I think these guys were probably the craziest of the men who have attempted to recreate mythic or ancient journeys. No keel or real shelter on a boat like that. The leader wanted to put two masts on it, and found his “proof” that such craft existed in a medieval illustration from the part of the account where they land on a sleeping whale, after mistaking it for an island, and start a fire on its back.
https://twitter.com/akarlin88/status/1362160967132602371
Is this trolling? This will never be remotely competitive to air cargo in terms of fuel consumption. It will never be as reusable and as safe either. At best it’s an interesting fantasy for very fast global military and emergency transport.
I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood that was 99.98% white. The only “colored” kids that I ever saw were a part of the first wave of black kids bused into my high school back in the 70’s. I thought that the whole process was stupid back then, and still do. Trying to force feed love and respect through artificial means doesn’t work, these are attributes that need to be earned. Later in life, through my work experiences, I came into contact with many co-workers of color that were hard working and good intelligent people. This was more of an organic process and paid much greater dividends with me.
As far as “Ukrainian genes” are concerned, I’ve come across many very fair skinned blonde and blue eyed types that don’t take well to the sun (my mother was one of these, although strangely enough she did tan quite well). Ukrainians seem to be wide amalgamation of genes and genotypes, IMHO.
Do you visit Peru often? It sounds like a very interesting country. The closest I’ve been there was Costa Rica. I was supposed to visit last year, don’t know if I will this year yet (thanks to the virus, of course). I’m way overdo for a Costa Rican vacation (I really like Costa Rica). 🙂
I was there once, tried to cover it all: a week in Cusco and highlands, a week in Iquitos and Amazonia (including jungle lodge, a place where they rescue Amazonian manatees, monkey island, and butterfly farm), and a week in Lima. In Lima we stayed in Miraflores, which is a wealthier part and remarkably safe, but went to several other places. We discovered that instead of underground, in Lima they have special buses that run on dedicated lanes. We also traveled to Palomino islands to swim with sea lions – a remarkable experience. The water is cold, but the company provided wet suits (and mandatory life jackets). Females and young are very curious creatures, swim right up to you, pop up within a foot of your face, and look at you. They clearly see tourists as a free entertainment. There were surprisingly few Americans in Peru, lots of tourists from what they call “paises hermanos” (brotherly countries, i.e., the rest of Latin America), and quite a few Europeans.
Never was in Costa Rica. Out of the whole Latin America, we were only in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Patagonia), Mexico (Mexico City and pyramids), and Peru. What surprised me in Mexico City was that it has more bookstores than the whole US. Never thought Latinos read a lot. Now I know better. BTW, contrary to American propaganda, central Mexico City is safer than most American cities.
For a variety of reasons, this has propaganda stench:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/22/artemi-panarin-new-york-rangers-leave-putin-navalny-nhl
If the busing didn’t happen, integration (including fairer housing) would arguably not be as well achieved. I say this as someone who isn’t so on board with job hiring, based primarily on sex and race, while acknowledging past and some present discriminating aspects on that score. A matter of pluses and minuses.
Yeah my old man was very fair and would get quite red in the sun, unlike my mom, who has Mediterranean roots. On that particular, I’m sort of in between, though closer to dad.
I once visited Mexico city and even wrote about it here quite extensively at this blog. I packed quite a bit in a 24 hour period. It was a stopover to CR. Wow, what an interesting experience! I took the extremely crowded subway from the airport to the nicer part of town that includes the zoo and many very interesting museums. The Museum Antropologia is worth a stay in this large city, all by itself (but there’s a lot more to see than that).
I’ve been through a bit of the San Jose city area too in CR, including some of its more plebian areas too. When it comes to CR, I’ve stayed at at 5* resorts and visited inner city homes and neighborhoods too. I enjoy seeing all sides of the human equation and accompanying lifestyles too. 🙂
Sounds like Tesla bear cope c.2019.
The problem is that most of the whites just picked up and moved out of these inner city neighborhoods to the suburbs. In Minneapolis, most people don’t realize that the old North Side was once the domain of the Jewish community. They all, pretty much moved out an moved into the first ring of suburbs called St. Louis Park. Today, its affectionately referred to as “St. Jewish Park”.
As far as the old Northside neighborhood is concerned, my parents used to be friendly with a Jewish family originally from Besarrabia. We used to visit them and vice versa. Lots of great memories tied up with visiting Bill and Bella. Bill even took me to my first baseball game – America, it’s a great country, let’s keep it that way!
I will say that Brian Wang was right, the minute Musk starts dropping tungsten rods on the headquarters of the rest of the Fortune 500.
So there’s more fuel costs. Okay. What part is going to be cheaper to make up for it? The only thing that comes to mind is no pilots. Still irrelevant since large cargo drones is something that actually will happen and it will probably happen this decade.
Tesla hasn’t accomplished anything magical. Making the best EV isn’t magic. I’m sure a publicly traded SpaceX could blow up to hundreds of billions that but still won’t allow them to replace air cargo.
No, it’s actually a very good argument. It’s why we don’t use helicopters to commute except for boutique things like CEOs or medical patients. And sending cargo by rocket would be another order of magnitude removed from air and sea cargo for economics and logistics reasons, than helicopters are from cars.
Air cargo is likewise much more expensive than ship transport, but it has major use case regardless where speed is of the essence and/or where mass per unit of value is modest.
Space transport will probably not replace air cargo, but it will cut a chunk out of it.
Cost of a transatlantic flight lasting half a day is $500+ for budget and up to $10k luxury. With 100 passengers, a $2 million Starship flight will be $20k. Many business people will opt for that.
Space tourism will be big. Currently costs $20 million, will go down to $20k. At that price, even I might eventually be able to afford that.
But the 100 passengers refers to the Mars version. This is crew + food, amenities, etc. to last them the multiple months of their trip. I haven’t seen numbers on how many a no frills passenger version of Starship would carry. If they can pack in 500, costs go down to $4k. In inflation adjusted terms, I would guess that’s cheaper than Concorde. Concorde was 3 hours trans-Atlantic. Starship is 30 mins trans-Atlantic.
Many, many businesspeople would take that deal I suspect.
The KN95’s I had certificated reached 99.5% filtration efficiency. They all do now. It’s cheaper to use the same non wovens for everything. Salt filtration is how masks are tested. SARS2 is a puny thing. Whiskey or soap will do the trick too. At that point mask wearing starts to make sense. Otherwise most people most of the put themselves in most danger wearing a mask. Crowded public transport the main exception.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-the-evidence-base-underpinning-the-uk-influenza-pandemic-preparedness-strategy
Artemi Panarin Follow-up
Re: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/516320-olbermann-panarin-russian-stain/ & https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/rangers-artemi-panarin-is-paying-the-price-for-speaking-out/
Pretty rich for a NY Post writer to call another venue tabloid. Notwithstanding, a pretty good piece by Western mass media standards.
The below USA Today article is flawed, along with numerous others. The one following it below is more objective.
The alleged incident took place in Latvia, which isn’t a part of Russia. An individual not associated with the Russian government is making the assault claim on Panarin. Panarin has been a supporter of Alexey Navalny, who is on record for making bigoted comments. Panarin himself made such a comment, followed by an apology
Contrary to the below USA Today article and other pieces like it, numerous relatively well known critics of the Russian government live outside that country, as some close family relations of theirs remain inside Russia. To date, I don’t know of any evidence of discriminating government action taken against the aforementioned family members.
The situation with Panarin is somewhat (stress somewhat) on par with Kyrie Irving, who took time off from the Brooklyn Nets for reasons having to do with social issues. Panarin is a very good hockey player. His stated political views leave something to be desired.
I sense that some Russian media outlet will be willing to let him respond at length to the accusation against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2021/02/22/rangers-artemi-panarin-leave-of-absence-russia-allegations/4541485001/
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/panarin-leave-of-absence-rangers-nhl-1.5923043
Perhaps Panarin is looking for an acceptable reason to take time off.
Those prices are basically based around very aspirational goals of the Starship construction cost only being the material used and the launch cost only being the fuel. Now try using the same reasoning for other methods of transport too. You want to remove all other costs? You’ll have a much easier time doing that with air cargo. Don’t apply techno-utopian dream logic to rockets without doing the same to airplanes.
I find it odd how white nationalists portray white people as being extremely meek and passive, as a race of victims basically so helpless that they couldn’t possibly fight back themselves or get themselves out of their predicament.
I don’t really like this mythology the right have created of the weak, pacifistic white race. It suggests whites have no agency or ability to fight and therefore are at the mercy of the Jews/elites and their black and Muslim foot soldiers and can only appeal to their better nature.
$1M is the fuel costs, the other $1M is for operational costs. Amortizing the R&D should actually add on an almost negligible negligible sum.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/02/16/are-elon-musks-spacex-promises-even-possible.aspx
Anyhow, I’m not making any strong claims, it probably won’t go anywhere fast if Starlink fails. Just a note not to be too surprised if SpaceX valuation soars into the trillions and kicks all competitors to the curb, including Roscosmos (whose lunch it is already taking away).
$1M or $2M, who cares. Fuel will remain a relatively small fraction of the operating cost. Elon Musk uses the marketing strategy of selling dreams. If Elon Musk started being realistic people would get bored. It’s okay to undershoot wild promises if you make some progress along the way and stay in the lead.
There’s room for reduction in costs in space launches but Starship (or anything with equivalent payload) is never going to have launch costs close to $2M. Luckily Starship only needs to be in the 10s of millions to dominate the competition. But Elon can’t say that because that would kill the redditors dreams of an affordable Mars ticket.
You can make up any number with muh mass production and muh amortized costs and by simply not accounting for many important issues.
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1364287394359504901
Has Twitter used this warning before?
https://twitter.com/Bykvu/status/1364292842894589953
Protests in Kiev because right sector member got imprisoned. These people probably just want disorder and chaos.
Not that I recall.
Certainly it would never appear on an equivalent Bellingcat expose.
https://twitter.com/akarlin88/status/1364331791528648705
Did you tweet automatically get the warning as soon as you posted it?
https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1364341051843084289
It does look like it’s a first. But what’s the point? Is it supposed to be incriminating against Russia? If anything it just legitimizes the leaks ― makes it harder to just call it all fabricated Russian disinformation.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1364366305470504962
Yes
Hard to say. A lot of the pieces in the puzzle fell into place when I realized the Germans were more financially invested into NS2 than Russia.
This is more “restoring relations with European allies” as opposed to “not being tough on Russia” territory IMO.
Oil price is now higher than average 2019 levels. How high will it go?
https://twitter.com/albats/status/1364283354053419014
https://newtimes.ru/upload/medialibrary/409/_————-29.03.2011-13.jpg
He was so cute as a baby. He looks more like his father’s Ukrainian side of the family.
Strabo, the Greek historian wrote: “Generally speaking, the men who have written on the affairs of India were a set of liars…Of this we became the more convinced whilst writing the history of Alexander.”
https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2013/06/03/alexander_vs_porus_beyond_the_fog_of_war_25749
Cyrus the Great was killed by the Massagetae who had nothing to do with “Indian soldiers “.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massagetae
I think NW Indians consider Turan to be part of them; and, Indians soldiers were mercenaries all over
Or just pajeet larping :shrug:
https://twitter.com/Singh23670/status/1353842988158488577?s=20
NW is closer to Turan anyway.
Some Brahmin posted it in a Telegram, same Brahmin thinks a 2″ dagger is a deadly weapon. :shrug:
Turan was Scythian. Later on the Turanian Kushans conquered NW India and ruled it for three hundred years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empire
Indo-Iranian.
You’re forgetting we’re both Indian & Persian in NW, fully Aryan.
We don’t draw hard borders,
Slav arguing about Greeks & Scythians..
German arguing about Balts & Latins..
Find your own heritage. 😀
You are right about the Arian part, but Zoroastrian Persians thought that Hindu Devas were demons. They split already in Turan. Did you know about the Arkaim Sintashta culture and the Bactria Margiana culture? Both were Aryan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfQxfxTY4yc
Indians & Persians get along well to this day;
LOL. Reality exists outside textbooks, people didn’t take the Ree Zoroastrian is completely seperate stuff that seriously.
You even had competing mono v poly theist schools of thought.
Also, wouldn’t preclude Indian merchants & mercenaries from expanding.
When u say India u think Maghadh
We think Sapta Sindhu
We don’t worry what “was” Aryan.
Khalsa makes all Aryan
LOL
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1364606051509620739
“Khalsa makes all Aryan”
Dharma makes all Aryan
Haha Bashibuzuk doesnt know what he is writing! Its written in Holy Avesta itself that Hapta Hindu or Sapta Sindhu is one of the Aryan Lands created by Ahura Mazda.